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After 2% fragmentation

I ran the user-benchmark again after the defragmentation.

Turns out the disk was fragmented 30% I deleted the fragmented files and ran the defragment and now it's 3% and here is crystal mark after it: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 99.589 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 99.031 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= ? : 0.973 MB/s [ 237.5 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= ? : 1.633 MB/s [ 398.7 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.959 MB/s [ 234.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.516 MB/s [ 370.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.294 MB/s [ 71.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.505 MB/s [ 367.4 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [C: 16.1% (149.6/930.4 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2019/06/05 9:02:52 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)

Another weird thing I noticed: Whenever I open up the task manager, the Icons for name take a bit of time to show.

The reason I am posting it is because of very bad performance in opening simple apps. I have seen a 5-year old HDD PC with a worse specs perform better in that regard. Both my GPU and HDD are performing way below expectations. 1. Battlefield 1: The most I am worried about is it's performance in game has declined dramatically. Where I used to play Battlefield 1 with 1080p lowest settings with above 60fps and no stutters, now even with half the resolution scale and console commands to improve performance I am hovering at around 40fps which would had been playable but there are stutters always in the middle. I just can't play this game at all now. 2. Counter Strike: Earlier was never worried about the performance of the game because it always delivered. Never wanted to look at what fps I was running at because it was not needed. After a year however, it barely manages 70-80fps and drops below 40fps in between. It's the same stutter thing. 3. Battlefield Bad Company 2: A relatively light game for this laptop. Where I used to get above 100fps, now it struggles to maintain 60 and drops and freezes in game. What I have tried: 1) Refreshing the PC. 2) Deleting all PC files and then downloading and playing the game again. 3) Using Windows Debloat tool to remove all Windows Crap. 4) Stopping Nvidia Telemetry and all Nvidia extra crap, just keeping the basic ones. 5) Shortstroking. (However as mentioned below, I didn't see sweet spot, the results were just wierd): Was this test supposed to be run from another HDD with this HDD completely disabled and not in use? These results are from Windows installed in the drive and 621GB of the 930GB still free. Do these results look normal to you? 6) CPU seems to be throttled at 88% as shown by user benchmark. I tried using the trottling app and the GPU tuner for Nvidia to sort of overclock and remove this issue but the pc keeps throttling in every test I run. 7) Clearing temp, %temp% and prefetch regularly. ? Running Disk Defragment regularly. 9) Propping up the PC about 1.5 inches. This improved the performance initially but now it's the same. 10) Trying different Nvidia driver versions. Important things I noticed: 1) Constant disk usage which spikes in between and even the CPU usage. I am also attaching a normal use scenario of the pc: 2. I live in Delhi, the temperature here crosses 45 degrees now and maybe it was just the cold atmosphere back when I bought it in August that it just performed better but the result shouldn't be so pronounced. 3. Initially, the laptop used to shut down while moving it from bed to table. 4. Since I got Windows pre-installed I don't want to format the PC completely but if it comes to it, I might do it. 5. It's the only appliance plugged into the board and sometimes I charge my other peripherials from the PC like a small watch, a 2W speakers which are powered. 6. Everytime I completely format the PC, the gaming performance does improve but only for a while, after a bit it's all the same. I have also attached a CPU-Z output for the same. My userbenchmark result with Intel HD. (For some reason the HDD is shown as WD WD10SPZX-00HKTT0 1TB there) My userbenchmark result with Nvidia MX150. Also attached Nvidia Settings. AcerAspire615-51G_CPUZ_Report